Digital Art Competition #47: Nighttime Landscapes

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Post March 25th, 2009, 3:00 pm

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The lights in yours are almost like the glowing red eyes of something out of a monster movie graphixboy. :D


Well I wasn't going for scary but I can see how it wouldn't take much of a step to get there.. Come to think of it a nighttime landscape is probably screaming (pun intended) for a horror movie style broken down mansion :mrgreen:
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Post March 27th, 2009, 3:14 am

Graphixboy's photo is very nice.
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Post March 27th, 2009, 5:09 am

keep in mind Jenie0109 that it isn't "just a photo". Not certain what all graphixboy did in his, but to qualify for this competition there has to be a good bit of digital alteration if you are going to use a photo. Several of these entries there is no photo involved at all. Others are digitally altered photos or combinations of both. Although good night photographers can take photos that look quite similar to graphixboy's entry without any alteration.

//and to know how to use the softwares, you really only need to buy some good ones and just start using them, read tutes, and play with them A LOT. If this kind of thing is something you'd really like to do, dropping $400 or $500 into a good program like Photoshop is probably the best investment you could make. Cheap considering the long term benefits. If you're only doing it for fun it might not make it worth it, but graphics design can be very rewarding and profitable.
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Post March 27th, 2009, 8:40 am

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keep in mind Jenie0109 that it isn't "just a photo". Not certain what all graphixboy did in his, but to qualify for this competition there has to be a good bit of digital alteration if you are going to use a photo.


Haha its true. I'm just not that good a photographer. In a nutshell here's what I did. First, I found source images that fit my general concept.
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road.jpg
Attachments:
sky.jpg
Attachments:
ruins.jpg
Attachments:
car.jpg


Then I recolored the foreground to match the night sky, replaced the old sky with my new one and added in a few details like the broken wall/shadow and the car. Finally I brushed in the glowing light streaks to make it look as if they car drove past as the picture was being taken.
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Post April 3rd, 2009, 10:22 am

great entries guys! look for the poll soon
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Post April 4th, 2009, 1:37 pm

I see far too many of those Aston Martins (the yellow car in pic above) driving around here now. It makes me very jealous.
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Post April 5th, 2009, 10:21 am

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I see far too many of those Aston Martins (the yellow car in pic above) driving around here now. It makes me very jealous.


Your lucky you get to see them on the road. They're just the stuff of pictures to me..
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Post April 5th, 2009, 12:56 pm

Not really sure why, but there are loads on the road here now. Within the last year or so they seem to be everywhere. By no means the most common car on the road, but i'll maybe see one or two every fortnight.

My mum and dad's neighbour bought one a year or so ago when it was 1 year old. That alone would have cost him about $140k.
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